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(NoModeL) E. LUOHS.

AUTOMATIC LINK MOTION FOR .PRAOTIOAL TOYS. NQ. 367,420. Patented Aug. 2, 1887.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDUARD LUOHS, OF NUREMBERG, BAVARIA, GERMANY.

AUTOMATIC LINK-MOTION FOR PRACTICAL TOYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,420, dated August 2, 1887.

Application filed January 11, 1887. Serial No. 224,004.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDUARD LUCHS, of

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, have invented an Improvement in Automatic Link-Motions for Practicable Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to mechanical toys; and it has for its object to provide a car or wagon which will be driven in one direction until it meets with some obstruction, when its motion will be automatically reversed, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of the wagon; Fig. 2, an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is'a side view, with one of the sides of the wagon removed to show the interior mechanism. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the device, the roof or cover being removed. Fig. 5 is a similar View to Fig. 3, the position of the mechanism being changed; and Fig. 6 is an end view, with the exterior case removed to show the interior mechanism.

A is the body of the wagon, which is supported on wheels, as usual, in this instance there being six. Pivoted on the rodB, at tached to the frame A, is a case or box, D, containing the mechanism for propelling the wagon. "Thismechanism consists of aspindle, E,j ournaled between the walls of the case on box D and extending out through one of the sides of the wagon, and having a squared end for turning the said spindle with a key. Attached to the spindle E, and coiled around the same, is a spring, F, the opposite end of which is attached to the case or box D, or to one of the cross-bars of the case, which spring,when tightly coiled, serves to "rotate the spindle E in the same manner as a spring in a clock mechanism. Secured on the spindle E is a cog-wheel, G, which meshes with the cogwheel H, secured to a spindle, I, journaled in the walls of the case or box D.

Mounted on a stud, J, journaled in the walls of the body A of thewagon andbelow the case or box D, is a pinion, K, which meshes with the pinion L, secured to the axle L of one pair I of the wagon-wheels.

Guided in the front and rear walls of the wagon are the rods M N, the rod Mbeing provided with the inclined or angled parts at m. Above the angled parts at m of rod M, and

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journaled in the case or box D, are the rollers O, which rest upon either of the angled parts at m ofrod 'M. Upon the ends of rods M N are secured the buifers P P and R R, which serve to receive the shock of collision.

The operation of my device is as follows: The spring F being coiled tightly around the spindle E, causes said spindle to revolve, and with it the cog-wheel G, which causes cogwheel H and pinions K and L to revolve, and with them the wheels L, thereby moving the wagon in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 3. When the wagon collides with some object by the striking of buffers P R, the rod M is immediately pushed backward into the wagon and the angled part at, striking the roller 0 and running under it, raises said roller, and with it the near end of case or box D, said case swinging on rod B, thereby disengaging cogwheel H and pinion K, lowering the opposite end of case or box D, causing the cog-wheel G and pinion Kto engage, thereby automatically reversing the motion of said wagon and causing it to run in the opposite. direction, as in dieated by the arrow in Fig. 5, until buffers]? and R strike some solid object, repeating the operation, as above described, again reversing the motion of said wagon, sending it backward andforward alternately until the spring is run down or the playing has ceased.

The rod N is not essential to the operation of Y the above mechanism, and may be omitted therefrom.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claimis- V l. A mechanical toy providel with a driving inechanism carried by a pivoted case, and

means, substantially as described, for changing the direction of motion of the toy by rotating said frame automatically, as set forth.

2. A mechanical toy carrying a driving mechanism carried by the pivoted case D, and means, as described, whereby the operation of the driving mechanism, and thereby the direction of motion of the toy, is reversed by the toy coming in contact with an obstruction through the intervention of a sliding rod, which acts against the driving mechanism, substantially as set forth.

3. In a mechanical toy, the sliding rod M, having inclined or angled parts mm, com- ICO bined with the pivoted case D, carrying the propelling mechanism, against which case said rod acts to change the direction of motion of the propelling mechanism when moved in- 5 ward, substantially as described.

4. In a mechanical toy, the combination of the pivoted case or box D, containing the propelling mechanism, said mechanism gearing with the driving-wheels of the toy, and rollers [o O, with the rod M, having inclined or angled parts at m, against which case D the rod M acts when moved forward or backward to change the direction of motion of the propelling mechanism and thereby the mot-ion of the r 5 toy, substantially as described.

with cog-wheel G or H, and journaled in the body A of the wagon, substantially as de scribed.

6. In a mechanical toy, the pivoted case or box D, containing the propelling mechanism, the pinion K, gearing with the cog-wheel G or H, and the pinion L on the axle If, in combination with the sliding rod M, adapted to reverse the motion of the wagon when coming in contact with an obstruction, substantially as described,

The foregoing specification of my invention for an automatic link-motion for practicable toys signed by me this 7th day of December, 1886.

EDUARD LUCHS. Witnesses:

ANDR. STIoH, FRITZ BEIIR. 

